17.10.2012.
Israeli professors deliver lectures at the Military Academy
Israeli professors Martin van Creveld from Tel Aviv University, and Dr. Shaul Shay, from the BESA Centre for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, have given lectures today at the Military Academy. The lectures of the professors was also attended by Commandant of the Military Academy, Brigadier General Mladen Vuruna.Aso Professor van Creveld pointed out, according to the ranking of various countries in the UN Human Development Index, the Balkans and the Middle East are crisis areas. In both cases, the causes of this state of affairs may be linked to centuries of Ottoman rule, the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new boundaries that did not take into account the national, political, economic, social and cultural factors. In that chaos the State of Israel became prominent, and the professor talked about the roots of its success and suggested that Serbia can learn something from that example, too.
Professor Shay said that we are at the historic crossroads, and it is increasingly difficult to determine the future of the Middle East, and the route to be followed by that part of the world depends only on the development of future events.Earlier today, the lecturers have participated in the conference "The Balkans and the Middle East: are they mirrors to each other" in the rectory of St. Sava Temple.
